Not much is known about Zatanna by most people, both
in-universe and out of universe. This is perhaps appropriate. Zatanna is the
official Mage of the JLA, due to the high versatility of her magic. She is
equally at home performing magic tricks at kids’ parties and fighting magical
threats to the universe.
Why is she so versatile? Well Zatanna herself
represents the boundaries between two worlds. And I mean that in as many ways
as possible. Zatanna exists in both DC (She is a premier member of the JLA) but
also Vertigo (Her boyfriend is the most famous Vertigo Mage, John Constantine).
She is the child of the two schools of magic in the DCU (learned and innate).
She does fake magic as her job and real magic as her career. Zatanna as a
character likes to inhabit the realm between two opposite realms.
This is because Zatanna loves the realm of
possibility. Her form of power is manipulation over words, because words have
the possibility to be anything. It’s also why she has her soft spot for
children, because children represent infinite possibility, they could be good,
they could be evil, they could be magical, they could be mundane, they could be
understandable, they could be mysterious. It all depends how they develop.
The stories of Zatanna are really stories about
understanding the intersections between opposed axioms and concepts, and that’s
what makes her really fascinating to me. That and she is hot. :P
This post rings with so much truth. Especially the hot part XD.
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